Product Finance Analyst, Google Customer Services, YouTube

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Statistics, or another quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in financial planning and analysis (FP&A), consulting, or a related function, or an advanced degree.
• 3 years of professional experience performing quantitative analysis, including financial modeling, data visualization, and data manipulation using SQL and at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, R).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in an analytical environment including business analytics, management consulting, and product and operational analytics.
• Impeccable business judgment, leadership skills, and the ability to communicate with clarity and engage with a senior management team.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, ability to put structure to ambiguous problems and drive insights.

About the job

Financial Analysts ensure that Google makes sound financial decisions. As a Financial Analyst, your work, whether it's modeling business scenarios or tracking performance metrics, is used by our leaders to make strategic company decisions. Working on multiple projects at a time, you are focused on the details while finding creative ways to take on big picture challenges.

As someone who knows the workings of the core Finance team inside and out, you'll lead individual projects to transform planning, tracking and control processes. You'll provide senior level management with insightful recommendations, planning and reporting support.

Ads Finance is part of Google’s Financial Planning & Analysis organization, providing financial and analytical support to Google’s business organization. Our work is integral to the operations and strategic decision-making of the commercial teams across all our advertising products. From understanding market and usage trends to exploring the productivity and returns on our various investments, the Finance organization is an important partner and adviser to the commercial leaders. In this role, you will provide Finance support to sales leadership, driving decisions around resource allocation and business growth, management.

The name Google came from "googol," a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. And nobody at Google loves big numbers like the Finance team when providing in depth analysis on all manner of strategic decisions across Google products. From developing forward-thinking analysis to generating management reports to scaling our automated financial processes, the Finance organization is an important partner and advisor to the business.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $113,000-$162,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Provide executives (e.g. Business and Finance VPs/Managing Directors) with clear insights into drivers of business growth, risks, and opportunities.
  
• Lead data driven decision making on investment strategies for products, identification of key market drivers for business generation and business profitability, and resource allocation.
  
• Analyze financial results and key performance metrics on a periodic basis to support decision making.
  
• Build and maintain necessary data infrastructure to support analysis and financial models.
  
• Engage cross-functional and Product Finance teams to drive scalable analyses, tools, and insights.

Engage cross-functional and Product Finance teams to drive scalable analyses, tools, and insights.